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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Bonus double dactyl

The doctoring folks over at Digestive Care Online have been running a poetry contest; entries (so to speak) have to be poems about colonoscopies. How could I resist such a challenge? So I entered (sts). You can enter (sts) too: the deadline for entries (sts) is 30 April 2009.

Here's my entry (sts), written last month so sadly not elegible for inclusion in NaPo:

Colonoscopy: the double-dactyl version

Digestive doctoringSaved me from great worryWhen I discovered someBlood in my pan.

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